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There's a variety of restaurants in Chapala and Ajijic, including very inexpensive food trucks off the roadsides. 

 

My typical lunch from the local restaurant Lake Taco is a two-piece fish taco and a nice, big glass of lemonade. This meal is under 100 pesos (US $5.50). I usually run over to Lake Taco because it's like home and is very accessible.

 

I like to go to a really nice, full, all-you-can-eat Mexican and north of...

There's a variety of restaurants in Chapala and Ajijic, including very inexpensive food trucks off the roadsides. 

 

My typical lunch from the local restaurant Lake Taco is a two-piece fish taco and a nice, big glass of lemonade. This meal is under 100 pesos (US $5.50). I usually run over to Lake Taco because it's like home and is very accessible.

 

I like to go to a really nice, full, all-you-can-eat Mexican and north of the border fruit buffet breakfast on a weekend, which normally costs 125 pesos ($6.85) per person and up to 150 pesos ($8.25) on special events like Christmas and Easter. The simple buffet would have soups, salsas, tacos, and vegetables. A full buffet would also include omelets of all kinds, half a dozen different eggs and other breakfast-type dishes, a table just for desserts, and drink-all-you-can coffee and juice.

 

All Mexican restaurant prices include tax. When you order in restaurants in Canada, the taxes added on to the final bill. It's nice that in Mexican restaurants, the prices you see in menus are what you get in your bill and what you pay for.

 

For dinner, there are a couple of restaurants that we like such as Roberto's Restaurant, which offers two-for-one promos on Fridays during certain hours. A meal of soup or salad, appetizers such as carrot and sweet potato fritters, and one of my favorite entrées of sea bass with orange sauce, rice or potato, and steamed vegetables costs around 180 pesos ($10). You can also go to Roberto's for lunch and they have a whole menu for 75 pesos ($4).

 

There are a lot of restaurants that have very excellent lunch-time specials around the 75-peso range ($4). A year or so ago, the lunch package cost was in the 50-peso range ($2.75), but the impact of the drastic change in the difference in the Mexican peso to US dollar resulted in the increase of food prices as well as the rise in costs of other products like gasoline.

 

You can also go to the mall and get a Subway sandwich for 45 pesos ($2.45).

 

(View from Lake Taco, Ajijic, Mexico, pictured.)

The economy is doing very well in Nicaragua. One of the reasons is because of the relationship Nicaragua has with Venezuela relative to oil and that is making a lot of money for everybody. It makes more businesses grow and it opens more job opportunities.  

 

I don’t know what’s happening with Venezuela because I don’t understand that, but I know that Venezuela has oil and oil is coming to Nicaragua.  

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The economy is doing very well in Nicaragua. One of the reasons is because of the relationship Nicaragua has with Venezuela relative to oil and that is making a lot of money for everybody. It makes more businesses grow and it opens more job opportunities.  

 

I don’t know what’s happening with Venezuela because I don’t understand that, but I know that Venezuela has oil and oil is coming to Nicaragua.  

 

In addition to the oil, other sectors of the economy are growing in Nicaragua as well.  Oil one of the most important sectors but tourism is also increasing. Nicaragua was named as one of the safest and one of the best places to live. This was advertised in several magazines, which helped tourism in Nicaragua to grow. There are now a lot of investments in hotels and restaurants and that is helping the economy a lot. Everything that is related to agriculture, such as peanuts, sesame oil, and all these items that are now more important in the world, most especially coffee, also helps the economy to grow. It is a combination of everything.  

 

A lot of people are moving to Nicaragua and a lot more people are doing business here than before. As a result, we now have several new brands in Nicaragua. For example, 10 years ago, we didn’t have any Friday’s or Burger King, but now we have all that and there is more to come. More people are investing in the capital, Managua. There is now a Hilton Hotel, a Holiday Inn, and there is a Windham Hotel that is about to open so businessmen are eyeing Nicaragua as a good place to make money.  

 

If you want to invest in tourism, Nicaragua has a special law that will return your taxes and that makes it very attractive for businessmen. You can come here and invest in a hotel or a restaurant and you don’t have to pay taxes. It is something that Costa Rica has had for a long time and Nicaragua has now also implemented it. 

 

(Nicaraguan coffee traded for Venezuela's crude oil, pictured.)

Yes, as a foreigner, you can buy or own land or other real estate in Portugal. There are no restrictions for owning any land or other real estate asset in Portugal based on nationality. Moreover, care to note that Portugal allows individuals and/or companies (regardless of the nationality) to own the freehold of land or other real estate assets for perpetuity.

 

(The long sandy beach at Nazaré on the Atlantic coast, Portugal, pictured.)

Yes, as a foreigner, you can buy or own land or other real estate in Portugal. There are no restrictions for owning any land or other real estate asset in Portugal based on nationality. Moreover, care to note that Portugal allows individuals and/or companies (regardless of the nationality) to own the freehold of land or other real estate assets for perpetuity.

 

(The long sandy beach at Nazaré on the Atlantic coast, Portugal, pictured.)

I do not have my maid come over to my place here in Placencia full time, so I pay her for whenever she comes to tidy up the cabana. I probably pay more than the average cost for a housekeeper in Placencia. Generally, you will pay around Belize $40 per day (US $20) if you want somebody to clean the house or do other tasks that you will assign for a full day.

 

Not a lot of people in Placencia have full time maids. Most people have a housekeeper come in only...

I do not have my maid come over to my place here in Placencia full time, so I pay her for whenever she comes to tidy up the cabana. I probably pay more than the average cost for a housekeeper in Placencia. Generally, you will pay around Belize $40 per day (US $20) if you want somebody to clean the house or do other tasks that you will assign for a full day.

 

Not a lot of people in Placencia have full time maids. Most people have a housekeeper come in only once a week, unless they have a resort. There are a lot of people that have built a caretaker’s quarters close to their house on their lot. The implied rent for the caretaker’s quarters is part of the caretaker's salary, so they get paid a lot less because they already have their housing, their electric and other utilities already being taken care of for them.

 

For some people, they just provide the housing and pay for the utilities and then their caretakers still go off and have some other little jobs. I met a couple just recently who had their caretakers for the last 12 years and they seem like they get pretty much everything they need.